Mr. Okpalugo and the student panelists shared presentations on some of the topics in Black history that students encounter in the core World History curriculum and some of the Assignments and research projects they've worked on in 11th and 12th grade electives, "The West and the Rest" and "The Black Radical Tradition." Following the student presentations, Gillian, Tarika, and Donald spoke about their experience taking 21 Dalton students on the "DGI Ghana: Year of Return" trip. The "Year of Return, Ghana 2019" was a landmark spiritual and birth-right journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. While August 2019 marked 400 years since enslaved Africans arrived in the United States, "The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” celebrated the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade who were scattered and displaced throughout the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.